Claire Carlsen

Claire Carlsen was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Francis Urquhart.

Biography
Claire Carlsen was the Conservative MP for Box Hill, and she was married to Bjorn Carlsen, a wealthy Swedish businessman. During her time in Parliament, she had a long-lasting affair with Deputy Prime Minister Tom Makepeace. She was appointed to Prime Minister Francis Urquhart's Cabinet as Parliamentary Private Secretary, and, due to Makepeace's firing and opposition to the Cabinet, Carlsen - still his lover - decided to assist him in sabotaging Urquhart. She played Urquhart and Makepeace against each other, and she failed to steal an unedited report on Urquhart's killings of captured EOKA guerrillas from 1956.